Webkinz Copy Cats and Knock Offs

[@dreamyjellies]

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[@Loopsy3]

Hi Dr- I mean Mrs Wizzard! … wait how does that work

[@jackischelling1316]

JELLY DRAGON❤

[@SketcheeClown]

Soooooooooo how does this work? Cause I fully downloaded the game using this link . Where my jelly dragon

[@Idontcareatall69]

The links aren’t working:(

[@AiLoveAidoru]

Link not working. But congrats on that sponsorship bag!!

[@EricMoranFilms]

It really is impressive how bearville lasted as long as it did. 8 years for an MMO that seems to be long forgotten is kind of crazy. Was such a fun game back in the day.

[@shad0wchateau]

there’s a team working on a rewritten project for it, actually! it was a big part of my childhood so i’m looking forward to it.

[@EricMoranFilms]

@@shad0wchateau yep! I did a video on Bearville over a year ago and the rewritten team was super helpful in providing me information / promoting it. If I remember correctly I think they are back on a hiatus but I’m not 100% sure

[@slemire]

That was my faaaaaavorite online game omg

[@Fr0g_J4m]

I miss bearville sometimes. I still use Mrs. Claus’s blueberry muffin recipe I got from there when I was like 10

[@PGOuma]

​@@Fr0g_J4mawwww 😭😭😭

[@pizus4823]

I didnt expect much out of the TY dog until the voice sample came in at 15:22. I was genuinely appalled and can 100% confirm i wouldve hated them as a kid too

[@abbycollins]

Same. I got verbal whiplash, I think it was the raspiness, causes it to cross the line between cute into annoying

[@AmyJ_ThaFurryWitch]

Bella Sara wasn't just about the cards or being a horse care simulator. There was a ton of lore behind it. I highly recommend looking into it. Sure, the website took a massive blow after the death of Adobe Flash, and some of the cards are really hard to get a hold of nowadays, but the story of the world is captivating.

[@shannylynn9342]

I agree! I LOVED Bella Sara as a kid. I remember it having so much to do and it definitely had charm for some reason

[@flowerheart2054]

​@@shannylynn9342i REMEMBER HAVING BELLA SARA MAGAZINE, i expecially remember about someone creating lake of tears

[@roserodriguez598]

Their books were some of my favorites as a child

[@Talpfote]

I have fond memories of playing on this website as a child and I had a BUNCH of horses registered on there. Sadly i forgot my login the one time I wanted to check them out and after that, the side was shut down with the death of flash...rip my collection

[@kimberlyd7394]

I had a couple-weeks stay at a children's hospital as a kid and my room had a computer in it. This was the height of the Webkinz craze and my dad wanted to get me one to cheer me up, but they were sold out everywhere. A nurse had told him that the hospital sold Webkinz in the gift shop, but it turned out to be Shining Stars. He got me one anyway bc he thought they were cute and figured it was something I could look into to take my mind off things. I named that Star "OUCH" played it for a few minutes, then logged back into Webkinz. (I do still cherish my Lion Shining Star tho, all these years later).

[@TheOfficalMiki]

I’m no Webkinz enthusiast, but this is very entertaining to watch. I hope Dream Jelly eventually talks about other online MMO games that have been made throughout the years (any animal jam nostalgiaheads here?)

[@PersonCalledIce]

Animal Jam mentioned ‼️‼️ Okay jokes aside a video over AJ or any other MMO (maybe more the obscure types) would be nice.

[@therianamber]

i LOOOVE ANIMAL JAM!! im trying to get my chatting abilities back because ive been scamming kids LMAOO

[@equus_ferus_caballus]

a year or two ago I made a new account and logged in for the first time since like 2018 and people were being racist in the pillow room 💀

[@JuliusD]

me too. did anyone here play Ourworld??

[@JuliusD]

lowkey AJ is incredibly toxic. not only is there so much racism, but i get descriminated for being trans. i had a trans flag thing i think it was a club or smth so thats how they would know. also, a lot of christian kids being homophobic and racist bc of their "christian views" 😭AND this girl was sooo mad that someone had a purple arctic wolf that looked like hers! it was during the galaxy super box so ofc everyone looked the same.@@equus_ferus_caballus

[@Spamlum]

U.B Funkeys figures are definitely derivative of vinyl figures and art toys: A unique blank slate with different customisations that all look cool and make you want to collect them. It's a concept I genuinely like, especially for the collecting aspect, but I can tell it was more a hassle to buy the pod and different figures to unlock new things with than it was to just buy one toy and have all features accessible that way, and that's probably why it didn't take off.

[@eelwitch]

fun detail about the bearville cafe roleplay! i distinctly remember having the option to “work” a couple selected jobs, like cashier/teacher/server/etc (that’s what the blue uniforms and stars over people’s heads were indicating). your actions and chat options would become limited to whatever you were working as, which is why they all had perfect grammar lmao. every workable job area was staffed exclusively by other players, which made it really cute. i can’t recall if you got paid for working, though i think if you did good enough over multiple shifts, you’d get certain items as a reward. i hopped between webkinz, lpso, and bearville as a kid, so this video was basically like crack for me LMAO

[@CCClarinet12]

I was a webkinz, bearville and innerstar u girl (those were my 3 fav computer games as a kid) I did play club penguin but my brother played it more and I didn’t find out about animal jam until I was a teen (and I still play it now and I am 18) and I played a ton of other virtual worlds like Poptropica, Moshi monsters, etc

[@feliciteacup]

yes, you used to click the clock to "clock in" and you would have to deliver the coffee and tea cups and pastries to people, then if you were ordering it you could click to drink and eat it. and i think you got paid if you did it long enough? i also remember if you clicked on the painting on the far left of the room it would take you to a secret room upstairs that was like a garden or something?

[@abbycollins]

@@feliciteacupI remember the secret room and cafe stuff! I loved that so much!!!

[@simonphantomhive7920]

I was a Bella Sara girlie. I had like four 3-inch binders FULL of the cards. It was truly my Pokemon. I would take them out of their binders and play out full on novel length stories with them. I had some favorites and I had some that I absolutely hated. I even wrote fanfic about them at one point before I even knew what fanfic was.

[@Sassybng]

I think one of the funniest things about Beanie Babies 2.0 was the fact that one of the pets available was literally just Barack Obama's dog.

[@Soweli_Lili]

Yes! I actually had that one, heheh. Didn't care about it being the president's dog, i just wanted it because it was being presented as this special dog which therefore, must have.

[@CelestialPlue]

I had a Ty Girl of Barack Obama's daughter.

[@KathySage234]

If I had a quarter for every time one of Obama's family members were in a Ty project, I would have 3. It's not many, but still strange it happened thrice.

[@Raphe9000]

In a way, the whole Toys To Life thing still exists to this day as Amiibo, though even that has taken a step back in the past few years.

[@candicraveingcloude2822]

Amiibo doesn't fully seem like a toys to life scenario. It's more "Toys that grant bonus features"

[@Raphe9000]

@@candicraveingcloude2822 Sure, but those bonus features sometimes are essentially the same as what you'd get from toys to life. Nowadays, it's really only done with Smash Bros (though Animal Crossing contains some of it still), but Nintendo did have a much bigger push during the Wii U era for actual toys to life functionality, such as Animal Crossing Amiibo Festival, Mini Mario & Friends Amiibo Challenge, and even Super Mario Maker IMO.

[@PeeperSnail]

@@candicraveingcloude2822 Amiibo was created in the wake of Skylanders' popularity, which was the pioneer of "toys to life" in gaming consoles.

[@Raphe9000]

This showed up in my notifs again, and I completely forgot to add that there are also Amiibo that are Skylanders, such as those Bowser and Donkey Kong amiibo.

[@random_fandom_kizzy3314]

I will never forget I had gotten the shining star dragon @ an old block buster. Bought it because I loved dragons and not for the online gimmick. It wasn't until a year later that I realized I could set up an account for the toy only for the website to constantly tell me "too many people are signing up right now." So I never had the joy of playing this knock off, but the stuffed animal itself was my all time favorite for years. So it has a special place in my heart even if they didn't let me play the game

[@nerdoftheatre]

I can't watch this right now because I'm at work. But it always made me chuckle that a lot of the Webkinz copycats have been long gone for years now. But Webkinz is still holding strong.

[@dusk_crawler]

Me and my family absolutely LOVED U.B. Funkeys. Whenever we had a family shopping trip, I would always save up my money and spend it on new funkey's and get all excited to come home to play their respective games and see what new items they had in their shops. In the past year, me and my mum actually started properly collecting all the funkey's and we've managed to get every single one in each different rarity, except for the henchman figure - which I consider one of my proudest achievements in life 😂

[@dullsunrise8820]

I loved both Webkinz and Bearville equally so hearing that Bearville shut down was kinda heartbreaking. For some reason I thought it was still going, but it lasted quite the long life at least in comparison to other Webkinz wannabes. Also the Shining Stars animated short thing looks like stuff that’s be on KZbin kids minus the trauma fuel.

[@retroradkat]

There was this one My Little Pony: Equestria Girls app, where you'd buy a doll and scan a code on her necklace to collect in-game. But you could literally scan it from pictures on Google if you had another phone or a computer 😂 2010s not 2000s, but I think it can belong in the discussion!

[@izznt]

Fun fact about rescue pets: I had one, and the name you give your pet is like a username, in that only one person could have each. By the end, my dear Cutie had 4 layers of attempted names on their physical tag as I slowly learned what that reality was. Even QT96 was taken ffs 😂

[@trashgod7095]

lmao nice to know someone else had that problem, my mom thought the game was broken and accidentally named by beloved cat lavender keysmash

[@thenerdlog1602]

I loved UBFunkeyes so much as a kid. It's so weird that it's probably the first of the "toys to life" games like Skylanders, Disney Infinity, amibo, etc.

[@ErisIsAnAbomination]

12:11 OH MY GOD I REMEMBER THAT NOW!!! I was struggling to remember if it was some kind of weird fever dream (especially the webisodes), but seeing that lightning bolt logo hit me HARD in the nostalgia! The Dinner Club meals are definitely high on my list of fictional foods that look unnecessarily good 👀 Edit, I remember loving the webisodes as a kid, but… GOD, that dog’s voice makes me wanna rip my ears off. Also gotta mention that while the American Girl MMO makes sense for what the brand is all about, Little Me didn’t want ANYTHING to do with a school-themed game 😭 Definitely didn’t help my perception of AG as a “boring” toy line, lmao.

[@feliciteacup]

build a bearville, webkinz, and club penguin were like the holy trinity for me as a child. once build a bear got shut down i was in middle school and moved on to animal jam.

[@CCClarinet12]

SAME! And also Innerstar U too for me

[@friendly4465]

6:51 Not you adding "he need some milk" sfx on the ginger cat plushie after that cursed webkinz milk story and now i feel insane 😂

[@Lunar-oddity]

It would make a loud thud against the wall

[@TooningIn2008]

That sponsor segment with the Jelly Wizard was so good. It’s been amazing seeing how far the channel’s grown (Been subbed since the Wonka vid)

[@cormorrox]

Fresh Jelly from the Jelly Wizard! Hurrah! The town will survive the winter!

[@ducky19991]

The Ty Country Bear made me literally wheeze Edit: as a Bratz fan, other than a cash grab, I can almost guarantee they created BeBratz just because Mattel had Barbie Girl… the doll cold war of the 00s 😂

[@amroncaddet3464]

Barbie VS bratz was crazy, especially since barbie actually owned bratz for a little bit and was about to release their own bratz

[@zQoQz]

6:52 thank you for the webkins plush milk story reference. i am haunted by that post to this day. one of my favorites from the internet

[@HeruruMeruru]

I know the website was Japan-only but I would have liked to see Sanrio's Jewelpet. I'm a little too old to have been on the Webkinz train (Neopets on the other hand...) but I gotta say Jewelpets are adorable.

[@commandixnostalgia2321]

But Jewelpet is'nt a ripoff though.

[@HeruruMeruru]

@@commandixnostalgia2321 The original website was very much taken from the Webkinz toy to life concept. Some theorize that it was the reason why it never came to the west since they didn't want to get sued. Which is uh, dumb, since Shining Stars and such didn't get sued.

[@daniellewilliamson4215]

Well yeah, but it had the same general premise (buy a toy, get a virtual version) and also I need to see more people talk about Jewelpet :(

[@raghugba863]

I really enjoyed this video. Of course, your stuff is always great, but I feel the little extra effort on details like the "air quotes" animation or all the times lil Dream Jelly came up on the screen to emote a bit made it even better. Of course, also pretty cool and interesting subject matter as usual

[@FelineWasteland]

I was pretty happy when Ty launched 2.0 as I was one of the unlucky kids whose single webkinz had a code that'd been sniped before I could play. I actually still have all three of my 2.0 beanies (two pink cats and one black cat). Some bizarre memories of the website include: the fact that the chat system wouldn't let you type numbers as part of the filter system, but would let you ask people how old they were as one of prewritten questions, so we had to find workarounds (I remember feeling very clever saying "dozen" to mean 12), and one of the songs that played when you decorated your room was "Life is a Highway". The 2008-ness of it all... I was also a Snootz hater even at that age; somehow his voice is even more grating than I remember. I'd also completely forgotten about the Bratz virtual world, despite having one of those, too (the purple one with the panda). I guess that speaks to how much I actually played it.

[@nearlyvampiric]

i actually was in LOVE with the concept of irl pets to online worlds, i loved beanie 2.0, webkinz, lpsonline, and bearville online. online worlds were my whole childhood. i am super excited for bearville rewritten!

[@marchforth3515]

i was absolutely OBSESSED with LPS as a kid and got one of those LPSO dolls, but I could never figure out how to actually make it work so I just never got that experience 😭

[@jackiefrost2]

Anyone remember the soda pop girls? I can’t remember if you needed to buy the dolls to play the online game, but I remember liking them and thinking they were cool! Was kind of hoping they’d be in the lightning round 😅

[@Jezzie]

At the time, TyGirlz felt so vast and full of content! I'm surprised there wasn't actually that much to do now that I reflect on it as an adult. I guess I was an easily impressed kid haha

[@ApprenticeWriter]

I really hope that the Barbie Girlz Rewritten project gets further along soon. The dressup function is always a blast, and I really want to go waste time on the one I remember best..

[@lovelylonely974]

Same here

[@iPeace460]

Webkinz was obviously my favorite and the GOAT, but I was also OBSESSED with buildabearville. I wish I could go back and play it again so badly. I agree, it’s visually so appealing. What I adore is that it looks like all the backgrounds are hand painted like it’s a storybook. There was always SO much to do on there. Like Webkinz, the longer you played, the more rewarding it felt, because you’d collect rare items and new things were always popping up. They also had a whole ass soundtrack??? Game recognize game For me, if you want me to get hooked on your Webkinz knock-off, you gotta have amazing mini games. And buildabearville did for SURE. Similarly, I think that’s why I enjoyed Shining Stars tbh!! I never had high expectations for it like I did for Webkinz, but I feel like I remember enjoying the mini games and I appreciated that they at least had a theme to the whole website. I like stars and space themes. Funnily enough, I don’t remember any of the features that you mentioned in the video!! I think I just played games and collected stars??

[@CCClarinet12]

THE SONGS ON BEARVILLE WERE THE BEST

[@yannan723]

Hearing the background music of Dogz from the Gameboy advance, no matter how low a volume it was played, I see you're a woman of culture 💅🏻

[@kutyhooves8804]

Lol I had a Rescue pet epet online dog! The best childhood photo I ended up putting in my yearbooks "back in the day" section is me holding my Rescue pet. I was hoping you'd be able to identify it, and you did thank you! I loved that thing so much, but you could NEVER take off the collar. That thing was attached. I also really enjoyed the online game, seeing footage of it was incredibly nostalgic. It wasn't substantial gameplay but being only 6 years old it was perfect.

[@Duncaster]

There’s one Webkinz clone that I NEVER see brought up at all. Hell, I’ve barely been able to find anything about it online. It was some fish themed one called Seapals. I remember buying a few of the plushes at an aquarium but I have no recollection of it besides playing it. Doesn’t help that there’s little to no info of it online

[@fusetunes]

those are so cryptic to me! my mom bought a couple deadstock ones at an outlet store like a decade ago and i was always fascinated by them because i could literally only find one documented page selling them online and it was some shady basic html site. you already have more info than i do from actually playing the game though! what was it like?

[@LYO999]

thank you I owe u my life!!! I’ve been trying to find the name of these for years when I got some 10+ years ago from a gift store in a city I was visiting and was literally trying to find them 15 mins ago after seeing this video title…… I feel like those ghosts stuck in purgatory that can finally pass on

[@Duncaster]

@@fusetunesbasic virtual world stuff. I faintly remember a shopping minigame but that’s about it. My memory is extremely faint when it comes to this game. I remember having a shark, pink anemonefish and a fire angelfish. But that’s it. The plush toys doubled as little finger puppets. This is all I can recall about this game. It’s just been sitting in the back of my mind gathering cobwebs until this video dug it out

[@fusetunes]

when the build a bear game came out, i went back to the store and the employees let me retroactively pick a code for any character to go with the childhood bear i had gotten. i picked the one that looked closest to mine and apparently it was some super rare character because the few times i played i had people incessantly spamming me with trade requests for my bear’s item after seeing it being carried around in my backpack. good times

[@samm7621]

bearville was honestly the only virtual world that kept my attention the same way webkinz did: working in the cafe had a chokehold on me

[@sherbert1321]

Bro… haven’t thought about shining stars in YEARS. I had one, for sure, don’t remember what it was, don’t remember what I named my star. Think I only spent like one day on the site before returning to webkinz and never thinking about it again. But when you mentioned Dark Star, it reminded me of something. When I was little, I wrote all sorts of stories. One of them was about my webkinz traveling to different mmo worlds like poptropica and club Penguin in order to save their kidnapped sister from a terrible villain, Dark Star. I’ve thought about that story from time to time in the many years since I wrote it when I was like 8, but I always thought I made up Dark Star. Now though, you’ve unlocked a whole new set of memories. That wasn’t someone I made up, that was Dark Star from Shining Stars!!! He came to the webkinz world to destroy webkinz as we know it!! Man. What a childhood I had.

[@naomi9606]

most of Bella Sara hasn’t been documented well because most users were young. it was so much more than just the stall sections and RPG Adventure. It had a huge world where you could plays many games, own a home, and explore the magical realm.

[@LonelyAssassin96]

I remember be-bratz. It was kinda fun, but kinda blank. I held on to the usb-access key thing for years until I lost it. I vaguely remember the commercials being all like "You can wear it as a necklace and wow all your peers with how cool and exclusive you are."

[@dgray5100able]

These sites like Webkinz and Funkeys and even Neopets were something my younger siblings were into more than I was. I remember so many of these being just blended together, though my sister was super into Webkinz.

[@maddyjane3559]

I was the BIGGEST build-a-bearville kid oml thank you for talking about itt. Even the soundtrack slapped. I miss it sm I wish it still existed :( also kangaroos are in the yard

[@darrar9418]

I so appreciate your JellyTV shoutouts :') Not only are they great recommendations, but it really makes this niche digital nostalgia corner of KZbin feel like a community

[@cheychaulk8823]

Idk how many ppl experienced this but during the pandemic creepy ads were placed on the side bars on the webkinz site. I still have screenshots of it i used to email the company with. Havnt heard anyone else talk about it but i think it went on for about a week

[@Sindel1011]

Was hoping you'd talk about the build-a-bear virtual world! I distinctly remember that one! 💜 Another one I enjoyed was there was this online Skylanders world that was short-lived but I LOVEDDD. Everyone knows that Skylanders was mainly for consoles but there was a online web browser world you could enter the code that came with your Skylander into and play with it. I remember missing it when it was gone.

[@marley_splash2026]

Snootz is fucking insane. I watched the entirety with my friends like two months ago and it’s one of the funniest things I’ve ever watched. From the bad animation, to the wild voice acting, to the terrifying chickens, and the live action episodes I recommend it if you feel like laughing.

[@mightberudyguliani]

the shining stars brought back so many memories in regards to the commercial! i loved the lil mark on their foot :3

[@mildlycornfield]

Ironically, the only place I ever encountered SeaPals in the wild was in the gift shop at Seaworld.

[@NightTheKittenn]

Oh shit! I had one of those little rescue pet plushies as a kid! I didn’t even know there was a virtual world connected to him, I just thought he was cute. He was a little black and white dog with a blue collar, kind of looked like a border collie puppy. If I remember right you actually got a sticker to put on the pet’s tag to write their name on.

[@demonjanitor]

I had a beanie baby 2.0 husky named “Dagley” that I brought everywhere

[@vinnamah989]

I used to have a Rescue Pets! Watching this video just unlocked a lost childhood memory! One of the site's unique gimmicks was each pet registered had to have a unique name (like neopets). I had one white dog pet. And after an hour of trying to come up with a name only to be told "that pet name is already taken!" I ended up naming her immy (lowercase first letter)

[@heidigreen8468]

Tamagotchi Connection was another virtual world for your pet. It had codes that you could get from the site to input into your toy, like a reverse of Webkins. And whatever evolution your Tama was on your physical device, if you sent your little Tama friend/pet into TamaTown, by way of a generated code, you would see that character in the town. My sister was all about Webkinz, and I was all about them Tamagotchis.

[@OrbyStormy420]

Why does the Shining Stars line and the virtual world stuff down to the avatars look almost near identical to Webkinz??? THAT'S a true Webkinz copycat I'd say myself lol! Loving this video so far I LOVED Ty Girls and Funkeys as a child.

[@AwesomeHyperSonic547]

I loved Build-a-Bearville, it was awesome, the mini games were so much fun, had a straight up fire soundtrack, and it was always filled to the brim with others playing too. They also had seasonal events like an interactive haunted house at Halloween and summer camp during the summer months. The customisation options were amazing for the cub condo (home for your avatar and build a bear), your avatar and the virtual build a bear. Miss that game. I also played Webkinz as a kid, it was a lot of fun as well, but Build-a-Bearville will always be my favourite one as it’s what I grew up with. Hopefully the Build-a-Bearville Rewritten being a fan project for the fans will successfully come back and not get pulled by Build a Bear like Disney has done with Club Penguin comebacks, which my sympathies goes out to all the people that just wanted to relive their childhoods again and Disney took that opportunity away, really quite sad.

[@NewsiesForeverSecondToNone]

I LOVED BEARVILLE TOOOOOO

[@rubye4022]

God, I really wish we had more screenshots and videos to Beanie Babies 2.0, the shops and games were my favorite things in the world when I played them as a small child, and not a whole lot got archived about it, at least to my knowledge. I'd adore if a bunch of now adult Beanie Babies fans made a 3.0 version remaster trying their best to remake the game from scratch- though referencing what little was archived and everyone's memories. (And yes, that includes the horryfying desert shop bunny that went actually insane to the point the shop had to close for a second as a "gag." That was TERRYFYING to me as a kid. Certainly one way to make me remember to carry enough money to buy things from the shops tho.)

[@KhanaHatake]

I never played any of these games, but I've seen that UBFunkies commercial hundreds of times! Huge nostalgia blast.

[@dunephase]

Thanks for making such a comprehensive video, super informative! Also the Chihuahua is my longtime favorite Webkinz, literally had my plushie sitting beside my screen before I clicked this lol. I enjoyed seeing all the clone game Chihuahuas you included for comparison.

[@PGOuma]

My chihuahua's stomach split open so we had to stitch him back up :(

[@anastasia.noelle]

i could listen to you talk for yours your voice is so calming

[@strappadork]

I loved Rescue Pets as a kid, probably because it was the first virtual world I ever heard of. Never knew about the 3d version though, that looks like... something else. And yeah, I don't remember Snootz being like that. Somehow as a kid he just seemed normal.

[@Earth_child_]

I was on beanie babies 2.0 a lot as a kid. But interestingly it wasn’t even using the virtual world that much. I think it was the page that led to the login page, but there was a space with a bunch of videos to click through. It must have been whatever was “viral” at the time on KZbin. But I spent hours there watching the videos because I was not aware/allowed on KZbin at the time.

[@bird6439]

See, it’s funny you mentioned Seapals being aquarium toys, because the only one I’ve ever gotten was the seahorse at an aquarium!

[@merleisbaby]

i had completely forgotten about shining stars..the website looked familiar but what really made me know i had one as a kid was the song from the singing plush. i completely missed out on lpso but build a bear ville was one of my favs.. i would check in everyday (iirc i think i had issues where my account would be broken) but man i miss it. i think my webkinz account is since long gone... but i might revisit it.

[@d.s.8227]

I watch a lot of retro gaming and internet culture content and it's really cool seeing it from the perspective of a girl, so I'm glad I discovered your channel. Your videos are so fun!

[@fizzyfluff]

I think an honorary mention that most people don’t know about is My E Pets!! I’d love to see you do a video or talk about that bizarre website and toy brand that seems to have faded from existence during what I can only assume was its peak popularity! There were unfinished parts of the map that literally never got done because it got discontinued! So strange. When I wasn’t on webkinz or go girls games I was on My E Pets!

[@delilahandaria6198]

As a child I was briefly obessed with trying to find a way to play with my 2009 american girl doll on Innerstar University. There was no way to retroactively get a code, and there was no way I was ever going to be able to afford a second doll just to gain full access to a game.

[@CCClarinet12]

I got my first one in 2010 and it did have the code and I LOVED the game

[@delilahandaria6198]

@@CCClarinet12so happy for you

[@marian_hayes]

I loved InnerstarU as a kid. I actually only ever played it out of all these games and never even had a Webkin. I have many fond memories of it!

[@foxgender]

i had webkinz as a little kid but once i got into my preteens i LOVED innerstarU. i always loved the dressup parts.

[@CCClarinet12]

Innerstar U was the BEST! I have wanted to play it again SO BAD for years!!!

[@aliciabeem9236]

the hold bearville had on my friend and me. out of any virtual world I played as a kid, that one had one of the coolest maps to explore and roleplay in haha

[@fusetunes]

also you should definitely do a video on defunct free-to-play social/rp sites like nicktropolis and the lost foster’s home browser mmo. they’re pretty fascinating and there’s an air of mystery around them since they weren’t archived very well

[@theonlybilge]

16:28 "This doesn't deserve a captain's log because this is DEAD SERIOUS! I want everything *ABOUT MY HOUSE OFF OF BEANIE LAND!"*

[@PentacleArtist]

Okay, I actually have the Shining Stars snowy owl. I didn't know that it was for an online game, I just found it cute and was kinda floored when I recognized the star symbol on the footage. I also have the LPS cat and didn't know about the game for that either. I actually played Bella Sara and the Build a Bear game with my older sister and definitely did not expect the former to be mentioned so that was a nice surprise.

[@namedate3437]

I’ve played webkinz and bear like and when I tell you I spent so much more time on bear like than webkinz because there was so much to do! I loved it until one day I couldn’t login anymore and lost EVERYTHING. I cried so much that day because I really did play that much. Someone’s trying to recreate it to make it free for everyone just like club penguin. Hopefully they can!

[@jesssayyes.]

Im so happy someone finally mentions U.B funkeys! I had (and still keep) a set and remember playing in the funkiki island a lot, the soundtrack is amazing!!

[@astralwyzard]

If you want More Content I recommend Billiam's video on it, he goes more over the gameplay loop and it may get your nostalgia gears whirring more

[@clowneryjohnson5208]

My sister got a shining star polar bear( I think) for Christmas one year and she would watch that movie SO often, and we only had the one family computer so I was always listening to it but I couldn’t tell you what the story was now, blocked it 😂

[@Catherine-bq5xy]

Uuggghh I just adore how the preview picture looks.. so nostalgic and pretty i wanna eat it...

[@inacatt]

I was really an Animal Jam kid, so I'm very lucky that my main childhood virtual online world is still up and running, but I just keep going back to how much I miss Fantage! I feel like nobody ever talks about Fantage, but it was my whole life before Animal Jam. The art style, the customizations, the freaking fairy grotto- I would give my soul to be able to play it again.. Sadly the only two revival attempts I heard of fell through and the company who owned it have absolutely no intention of rebooting or continuing the fanchise.. It genuinely breaks my heart that I couldn't even log on for the farwell celebration because the computers I had acess to couldn't load the website (it was already breaking down, even before the death of Flash). I would pay money to a legit group of devs to make a rewritten version..

[@tinyjamss]

i used to love shining stars :') here in the uk webkinz were rare to find, but shining stars were everywhere!! i had like 10 of them and i was obsessed with the web series they released

[@beIIabeIIa]

I've been binge-playing the Sims and Animal Crossing the last couple weeks so the sound effects on this one were surreal lmao

[@Soweli_Lili]

I loved the beanie babies game as a kid. also, had a weird obsession with snoots. I completely forgot he had a voice though. I think i also had a shining stars plush too? specifically the rabbit but i lost the code before i could ever use the site. Also, had a HUGE obsession with the 2d My E Pets (didn't even know there was a 3D one) and had so many of those plushies. I think i lost them somehow while moving though :( But yeah, clicked this video because My E Pets was what i immediately thought of and was waiting for it to be mentioned.

[@holycemetery]

the book featured in the Precious Moments collection-- I had that book! And it has been ages since I've been trying to track it down because I could not, for the life of me, remember what it was called. I gasped when I saw it!

[@CCClarinet12]

OMG I HAD THAT BOOK TOO

[@SarahWolkowitz]

I’ll be real, I’m a Webkinz girly all the way, but when Ty closed due, I bawled. I try every year to see if it comes back, but it never has.

[@smallpapercrane1620]

This video was made for me. The webkinz. The lpso. I remember that stat commercial. I've been a build-a-bear emoloyee for several years now and we all reminisce about bearville all the time. I had several UB funkeys!! Absolute delight to watch this!!

[@thephantomwolf1002]

20:40 Oh hey, I actually had a few Seapals! Ones I had were the pink anemonefish and the bannerfish ones, might've had a couple others but those were the ones I remember (might've also had the pufferfish one?). Don't remember what the actual game was like though, but from the footage in this video, maybe that's for the best (I... probably only got the Seapals because I really liked fish/marine life in general when I was younger)

[@acelessbros.3111]

The "HE NEEDS SOME MILK" with the cat had me rolling on the floor lol.

[@Mooms]

Fun fact about Ty Girls: Ty got in trouble in 2009 because two of the dolls (Marvelous Malia and Sweet Sasha) were (supposedly) named after former President Obama’s daughters

[@inferodios]

Once again, dream jelly uploads a day after Izzzyzzz! I really wanna see a collab from you two!

[@welpppppppppppppp]

izzyzz + dream jelly + li speaks would be the magnum opus of the kids virtual world documentation genre

[@randomfan972]

I grew up with Bratz, Hello Kitty, build-a-bear and whatnot, but WHEN I TELL YOU that you ✨unlocked✨🔑 a deep hidden memory bringing up Be Bratz OMFGGGGG. I can’t believe my brain wiped that out, I loved that game. 😭😭😭😭😭

[@thefallencore3]

I used to play one of the Bella Sara 3Ds games when I was younger! Never knew that they also made virtual worlds

[@imagineamv6334]

Every time I see a new Dream Jelly video I get the same endorphin rush as when I opened the delivery of my latest Wii game when I was 11

[@aidanboyle7374]

I was _pretty_ sure that I had a Shining Star as a kid while you were talking about it, until I saw the blue and purple dragon and I became POSITIVE that I had that thing

[@themostuniquescenekidlolXD]

I think you forgot to mention something about Shining Stars. They actually DID re-invent Shining Stars, but it was just on the 3DS (or DS.) It was called Shining Stars: Starcade. It had the exact same cover as the movie. I have a 3DS at my home and I'm planning to actually try to download it.

[@kelseybunker3264]

welp snootz' shoutout to kelso and bunbun (my plush) was me. I thought I had that memory buried ages ago. I see I unintentionally have my five seconds of fame! Wonderful job on the video!!

[@judeqween]

Ty girlz was my whole childhood and i’ve spent years looking for youtube videos on it and always find practically nothing- this video done such good coverage of it i’m so happy 😭

[@kandyvien9563]

Dude my entire childhood and teen years were Webkinz. I convinced my grandparents to take me to the Webkinz tour thing. I got like 3 Webkinz out of it. I had over 100 of them (including the Dalmatian which is special to me bc my late grandfather whom I was SUPER close to gave it to me before he passed). I'm glad to see someone else spent as much time on it as I did!

[@peachesmelba6381]

I was so obsessed with build a bear and bearville as a kid. I had all the build a bear video games and I convinced my parents to get me around 3 visits (which was a HUGE deal since we had to drive hours and hours to reach one) I would be unironically obsessed with it if it were to ever return

[@CCClarinet12]

Idk if my childhood build a bear store still exists cuz I haven’t been to that mall in YEARS

[@Dilaughosaurus]

Something I remember about Rescue Pets (My Epets) is that your pet couldn't have the same name as another player. So I had Brownie and Oreo, but really they were named something like Br0wnie4510 and oO-R-E-Oo. Kangaroos in the yard. An online toy I got as a kid was Test Tube Aliens. I was so excited to try it online, but guess what? It wouldn't let me sign up. So I had the toy but could never play the games... I'm not sure why that was but I was so upset lol.

[@astrogoatz]

i remember playing epets as a kid!!!! ive been wondering what the virtual world was bc i just remembered it shut down at some point as a kid and never knew why and i could never remember what virtual world it was because of this video, i finally have a sense of peace. thank you jelly

[@theorangeintrovert]

I was obsessed with Build-A-Bearville when I was 8, until I got banned and cried for 2 days

[@JuliusD]

what is the music for 16:31 there was an old flash chatroom game called Whirled i used to play and some rooms would have this music in the background, along with "what a wonderful world" in the main lobby.